Texts of April 2007

Amazingly, due to my habit of leafing through short books while on vacation (especially art books, which are mostly pictures and are thus less taxing on the brain), I've ended up breaking the 30 books in 30 days barrier - and that's even if you discount the children's books I mused on at the Strand. Sure, hardly any of these are of a significant length, but it still feels good to look back on the buffet of text and pretty pixels that has been my more-than-daily fare.

*POETRY*
Boey Kim Cheng's "After the Fire"
Bei Dao's "Unlock"
+Ciaran Carson's "The Twelfth of Never"
James Houlihan's "Thirty-one Superior Poems of Our Time"
James Thomas Stevens's "Combing the Snakes from His Hair"
+Tim Dufrisne's "Nosedive"
+Louise Glück's "Averno"

*FICTION*
+Dai Sijie's "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress"
+John Cleland's "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure"

*DRAMA*
+Ngugi Wa'Thiongo's "The Black Hermit"
+Elangovan's "Smegma"
+Louis de Bernières's "Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World"
Jean-Baptiste Molière's "Le médecin malgré lui"

*NON-FICTION*
+Dana Lam's "Days of Being Wild"
+"FOCAS 5"
+Simon Blackburn's "Lust"

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Wee Tian Beng's "The Celestial Zone 14: An Onerous Battle" and "The Celestial Zone 25: The Xue Ling Union"
+Frank Miller's "300"
Lynn Johnston's "David, We're Pregnant!"
+Tim Fish's "Calvacade of Boys" and "Young Bottoms in Love"

*ART BOOKS*
+Banksy's "Wall and Piece"
David La Chapelle's "Heaven to Hell"
+"David Hilliard", photographs
Slava Mogutin's "Lost Boys"
+"Mark Morrisroe", photographs
+Christopher Makos's "Exhibitionism"
"Anna Gaskell", photographs
+Yumi Yamaguchi's "Warriors of Art: A Guide to Contemporary Japanese Artists"

*CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATED COMEDY*
Maurice Sendak's +"Where the Wild Things Are" and "Bears"
Amos Vogel's "How Little Lori Visited Times Square"
+Kasper Hauser's "Skymaul"

*PERFORMANCES*
+Toy Factory's "251"
+The Finger Players's "0501"
W!ld Rice's "Blithe Spirit"
Terence McNally's "Deuce"
Personal Space Theatrics's "Myth America"
+The Bowery Poetry Club's "Urbana Tuesday Night Poetry Slam"
The Nuyorican Poets Café's "Slam Open"
+"Altar Boyz"
Nosedive Productions's "Suburban Peepshow"
+The New York Neo-Futurists' "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind"
+Young-Jean Lee's "Church"

*EXHIBITIONS"
Joshua Yang's "Superstring Theory"
The Museum of the American Indian's "Off the Map" and +"Indigenous Motivations"
+"Leonardo Drew" at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
"Eva Rothschild" at 303 Gallery
+"Chen Qiulin" at Max Protetch
+Powerhouse Arena's "The Male Gaze"
The Guggenheim Museum's "The Shape of Space" and "The Hugo Boss Prize: Tacita Dean"
The Bronx Museum of the Arts's "Here and Elsewhere"
+The Brooklyn Museum's "Global Feminisms"
+Devorah Sperber's "The Eye of the Artist"
+Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party"
+The remnants of an auction at Exit Art

*FILMS*
Elia Kazan's "East of Eden"
Shawn Levy's "Night at the Museum"
The second half of John Turteltaub's "National Treasure"
Stanley Kubrick's "Space Odyssey: 2001"
Atsushi Funahashi's "Big River"
+Several nights of "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report"